A small group of experts on various aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and North American integration will come together on March 20 for a one-day workshop at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. Titled "The Future of NAFTA," the meeting will be […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Energy and Environment: How is China Responding’ at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Friday, March 6, 2009. The seminar will continue the discussion from the Pardee Center conference on China’s future held last […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future will hold a lunch seminar on ‘Microfinance for Food and Development’ at the Pardee House (67 Bay State Road, Boston) on Wednesday, January 21. The seminar is the first of the new semester and the second in a series of seminars related to […]
Dr. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was nominated by the United Nations’ Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon to serve on the UN Committee on Development Policy (CDP). In its second organizational meeting for the 2009 session, members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) […]
Prof. Cutler Cleveland, a Pardee Center Faculty Fellow, presented the plenary address at the 12th Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference in Phoenix, AZ, on January 14, 2009. The title of his talk was “Collaboration in Knowledge Creation,” where he discussed the novel ways in which the Encyclopedia of Earth encourages collaboration and outreach on […]
Application deadline: Friday, March 20, 2009. The Pardee Graduate Summer Fellowship Program offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics that are aligned with the broad research interests of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. The Pardee […]
Prof. Adil Najam, Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was invited to deliver a lecture in the Hamilton Hall Lecture Series in Salem, MA. Speaking on what was the 200th birthday celebration of Charles Darwin as well as Abraham Lincoln, Prof. Najam emphasized that both these men […]
Prof. Adil Najam, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Story of the Longer-Range Future was one of the featured speakers at a regional conference on Global Climate Change in South Asia organized by the Ministry of Environment, Government of Pakistan and the World Conservation Union-IUCN. The conference was held in Islamabad, […]
The Pardee Center, in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan co-sponsored its first seminar abroad. This seminar is part of the Center’s new initiative on Food and Sustainable Development, which is supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Food Quality (LNV). Video here. The seminar was titled Future Challenges: Food and […]
Moeed Yusuf’s paper titled ‘Predicting Proliferation: The History of the Future of Nuclear Weapons’ has just been published by the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Moeed Yusuf is a Research Fellow at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and author’s of the Pardee Center’s […]